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The Social Brain
Sociological Foundations
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2023
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The Social Brain: Sociological Foundations introduces the concept of the social brain, including a detailed conceptual model of the social brain networked in the world. The idea that our brains are social has its roots in nineteenth-century social thought and primate research initiated in the 1950s. It was introduced into the neuroscience literature in 1990 as a challenge to the traditional view of the isolated bio-medical brain, a view that still dominates the scientific, media, and public imaginations. Sal Restivo’s foundational thesis is that humans arrive on the evolutionary stage always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes. He argues the “I” is a grammatical illusion reflecting the myth of individualism. The unique feature of this book is the amount of space devoted to constructing the sociological scaffolding needed to understand what the author means by the social self, the social mind, and the social brain. The approach leads to new ways of thinking about socialization, consciousness, and creativity as networked phenomena. The result is a novel way of integrating the social self, the biological self, and the neurological self and erasing the classical boundaries between brain, mind, and body.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2705-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2706-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
216
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access
The Sociological Imagination No access Pages 1 - 12
Sociology Comes into View No access Pages 13 - 26
Evolution Invents the Social No access Pages 27 - 36
Individual and Society No access Pages 37 - 44
The Social Body in Society and Politics No access Pages 45 - 64
Genius Incorporated No access Pages 65 - 70
Improvisation Incorporated No access Pages 71 - 86
From the Matrix to Reality No access Pages 87 - 98
Robots, AI, Brains, and Bodies in the Information Age No access Pages 99 - 106
The Sociology of Consciousness No access Pages 107 - 114
The Social Life of the Brain No access Pages 115 - 140
The Social Brain in Health and Illness No access Pages 141 - 154
